KVR Audio

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:26 am

A tick is certainly smaller than a 64th. It's ridiculously small, but it's not quite (as PT says) sample level. I'm not sure why you'd need to zoom any smaller than T already zooms, though, so I wouldn't worry about it, sidhu. Sample-level zooming comes in handy for... well, I'm not sure what... probably making seamless loops or something.

Greg

ModuLR · Post by **ModuLR** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:53 am

Most midi sequencers operate on ticks. Tracktion has a resolution of 960 ticks / quater note. However.. just for clarity, if you turn the snap off, you can infact edit distances less than a tick.

BTW, just to throw two more cents in there.. Tracktion rocks!

M'Snah · Post by **M'Snah** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:28 am

Gwydi · Post by **Gwydi** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:31 am

HansM wrote:I also see a few posts here that Tracktion is the wrong product to use if you do serious quality audio recording...

Can't imagine why - the quality of the recording has everything to do with the quality of your audio interface and almost nothing to do with your choice of host.

G.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:51 am

HansM wrote:btw. regardless of the easy of use of Tracktion for audio recording etc. I also see a few posts here that Tracktion is the wrong product to use if you do serious quality audio recording...

Can't say I've seen any of those posts. Au contraire, most people feel that Tracktion's 'sound quality' is great, though in my opinion it's not better or worse than any other.

People who say they don't use it for 'pro' usually cite the inability to sync to their hardware, but that's about it. A pro who only uses audio and not extensive outboard MIDI devices could easily record and mix a lifetime of music in Tracktion.

Greg

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:59 am

Sorry HansM, I do remember seeing that you used Tracktion.

I know T's audio editing isn't superior to things like Wavelab or Peak, which is why I also have Peak for my Mac and Audacity for both platforms.

Also, there's nothing anywhere to prove that you can't do professional recording with Tracktion. T can truly be used professionally to get fantastic results; just as good as Logic or Cubase. Some of the tools inside may be different. All of them have features that make them different, but none of those features make one more "professional" than the other.

As I said before, the problem with most people who criticize T is that they haven't used it, or even looked into it. It contains everything you need for recording, and with T2, much will be improved, including hardware support and better MIDI, which are two things that really were lacking.

And if you don't like T because of the look, then you now have no excuse either, because version 2 can change colors of everything. I'm really excited about what is to come with T. But I guess we'll just have to wait to see what the future holds! Good luck with your sequencer of choice!

Koolkeys

M'Snah · Post by **M'Snah** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:18 am

P.T. · Post by **P.T.** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:42 pm

ModuLR wrote:Most midi sequencers operate on ticks. Tracktion has a resolution of 960 ticks / quater note. However.. just for clarity, if you turn the snap off, you can infact edit distances less than a tick.

BTW, just to throw two more cents in there.. Tracktion rocks!

Thanks for that "Turn off snap..". I don't know how I could have forgotten that.

I kept thinking, damn I can see where I want to cut but I can't get there.

ceenda · Post by **ceenda** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:29 pm

I purchased Tracktion recently, coming from both FL Studio and Orion Pro. It hasn't replaced either of those by any means, but I find it massively flexible. In particular, being able to Re-Wire to FL Studio solves alot of the problems I have with FL Studio's arrangement style. I just like having everything there on one screen.

The ability to switch time signatures and tempos on the main timeline is immensely intuitive to anyone with a traditional stave background.

Also, I was a bit apprehensive about the lack of standard Mixer and Aux/Send functionality, but using the 'Racks' is an easy way to achieve the same thing.

The only problem imo is stuck notes. And it seems i'm the only one who has this problem. Basically, when I enter a note on the piano roll, the note is permanently on and there is no MIDI Panic to stop it.

T2 looks set to fix those problems though.

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:53 pm

Stuck note were always a problem for me, but it's been a while since I've noticed them. I think that certain synths are more prone to it than others. EWQLSO was particularly bad. I often emailed Jules about this and I think that it was more or less fixed. . . not sure.

ceenda · Post by **ceenda** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:00 pm

chagzuki: Thanks, glad to know that Jules is at least aware of the problem. Should be fixed in T2.

I think the problem may be, ironically, that it's MIDI clips are so flexible, that when you resize the edges of clips, maybe the cut-off and beginnings of notes don't get included.

Either way, it's annoying. But hopefully fixable.

And to be honest, if that's my only complaint, then it can't really be that bad a host.

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:05 pm

ceenda wrote: I think the problem may be, ironically, that it's MIDI clips are so flexible, that when you resize the edges of clips, maybe the cut-off and beginnings of notes don't get included.

Now that you mention it, that is the remaining issue with hanging notes. There used to be some other problems but they were fixed. Yes, it is annoying.

Tracktion : main host ?